People: High Authority

Hooperator C. (for Claude) E. (for Ernest) Hooper concluded that television was a fine influence on U.S. family life. Speaking in Louisville, Ky., he said: "Henry Ford took the family apart and television is putting it together again."

"The time," said Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in Worcester, Mass., "is not ripe for women to aspire to higher office. It is utterly ridiculous to try to elect a woman President now."

The plain, American gothic face of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft looked different. Told by friends that his familiar rimless glasses made him appear...

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